* Posts by Ole Juul

2726 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Apr 2007

IETF bakes Google's SPDY protocol into HTTP 2.0

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15% increase?

Perhaps there is indeed something in it, but to me 15% is nothing more than proof of concept. Here's hoping they make it to 150 - then I'll notice it.

Malware slurps rocket data from Japanese space agency

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This is the second time

I guess they don't mind then.

Data cops seek 'urgent clarification' on new Facebook advertiser plans

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Re: Why is there no simple decentralized FB alternative that utilizes existing email accounts?

The internet works just fine for those of us who chose not to use FB, and it has for years. We've been talking with one another via e-mail, public and private forums, file sharing (like photo sites), guest books, blogs, web pages, and much more. Facebook caters to those who are lazy, eschew the internet, or can't resist something fashionable. No new service is going to fix those problems.

Google avoids tax with ‘Double Irish Dutch Sandwich’

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Multinationals?

It seems to me that the problem stems from the fact that these companies aren't forced to pick a country and stick with it. Whose side are they on? Nobody's.

This is like a football player who plays for two (or three) teams.

FCC plans to make Twitter, mobile networks disaster proof

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Does the FCC even have a role to play any more?

The problem is that communications companies have already successfully resisted Federal Communications Commission calls to make emergency preparations and the government effectively has no authority over communications networks any more. In fact there is a claim to a constitutional right to operate without any federal oversight.

APPLE reveals complete updated blueprints of SPACESHIP JOBS

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eco-Stalinist structure

Nice phrase.

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Joke

Re: Fecking whatever

Wish I had a hadron

Ya, this doesn't really get a rise out of me either.

One week left before US faces clamp down on piracy

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Re: Ho hum

Besides what happens in America doesn't concern me at all......

It should. The desperate actions of an empire in decline always causes waves.

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Re: I foresee....

.. in order to avoid costly lawsuits please kindly send $100 to..."

That's a great idea, and it looks like it may even be legal.

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People for the American Way?

Maybe it's just me, but "Civic Media Project at People for the American Way" just sounds a bit creepy and reminiscent of McCarthyism. Regardless of the ethics of downloading copyrighted media, it would seem that "the American Way" would be to do it, so the name could also be be perceived as factually misleading.

Pakistan bans 'immoral' late night mobe deals

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complaints from religious groups, politicians

They're just jealous because they can't stay awake long enough to take advantage of the deals.

.WTF? Governments object to .sucks, .army and .airforce

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Re: Is any of this addressing a real need?

Unfortunately now that they've started this, some companies will be hurt by it. Hopefully some of them will have enough money to sue. I'm sure that will be even more of a circus, but I guess I'll have to wait until after the intermission.

Google to UN: Internet FREEDOM IS FREE, and must remain so

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Re: Obvious solution

Where the crowd sourcing simply degenerates into rival camps throwing faeces at each other the person with the most upvotes should have the last word.

Unfortunately when it comes to throwing faeces, those who are full of sh*t will always win.

Sam Sung found in Apple Store SHOCKER

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Except that would result in a human rights case. Perhaps he's hoping to cash out on something like that though.

Evildoers can now turn all sites on a Linux server into silent hell-pits

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Re: Infallible does not exist

It's laughable to see those that are "shocked" to learn that someone hacked Linux, it is definately secure but definately not un-hackable........

So who's shocked? What's your point? The fact that it is possible to compromise any system is not being discussed here. The question is the means.

By the way, it looks like your spell checker was compromised. ;)

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Something doesn't sound right

It's still an interesting story, but comes across as scaremongering when the infection vector is left out.

Exactly. Perhaps it's time to take bets.

Web users: We've got NO IDEA if we're stealing content or not

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Re: 39p ($0.97cdn @ 2.5% exchange)

You obviously don't think they are offering a good product. Unfortunately there is no practical way for you to show that to the "Big Music" BUSINESSTARDS because they don't see this a being a competitive business. Perhaps one day they will.

Mozilla's Social add-on MERGES Facebook with Firefox

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every parasite needs a host

0.0.0.0 www.facebook.com

Ten Linux apps you must install

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Re: Nice article

Sadly the first comment is typical of a male dominated IT environment, . . .

The IT environment may indeed be male dominated, but I don't think this has anything to do with command line vs GUI. I've met numerous women who prefer the command line. It's actually interesting when you look at the history of computing and see that the "women of the ENIAC" who were arguably the first programmers, didn't even have a terminal for programming. Perhaps the word "nerd", that some seem to insist on connecting with the command line, has sexist overtones. The passion for, or choice of, an interface certainly does not.

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making choices

I suspect many who use Linux these days do so because they wanted freedom from feeling like they were being told just how things were going to be, rather than for technical reasons or wishing to escape the evil GUI.

Thanks Mister T. You nailed it. It's funny how some people get into technical details when that isn't even relevant. One would think that in this day and age where IP is king, that people reading these forums were more cognisant of the role of licence agreements in making choices.

As for the list. I agree, it's not bad. This article sparked discussion and I've picked up a couple of good pointers in the comments.

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Re: Normal people don't use Linux

You also have to consider where you will get support and how much extra that's going to cost you.

Exactly. Since your are obviously not able to do your own support.

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Re: I've been using Linux since mid-late 1993 (Slackware).

I grok Kate ... but I prefer vim. I mostly use my GUI of choice to run multiple xterms :-)

Re: Doc/Docx, I ignore them. Hasn't upset my business any.

Well it does sound line we're basically on the same page. I always run a stack of xterms as well. However I find it impossible to ignore the doc/docx docs. I absolutely have to receive documents from people and there is no way I'm going to get them to understand what a text file is - I've given up on that.

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Re: Kate in a bottle

Thanks for the suggestion! I just installed it on a Linux box as well as one running FreeBSD. It looks pretty good so far. Mostly I prefer working in a terminal though. My favourite editor there is ne which is the first thing I install on any machine.

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Re: I've been using Linux since mid-late 1993 (Slackware).

Same here (never used MS-Windows) and I still use DOS for many things. In fact DOS is great for doing web pages. BUT, when you have a long page with nested divs you might want to look at Kate. When you see the syntax highlighting you will be glad for the time saver. It's all very fine for us to brag about our command-line prowess, but there are uses for GUI tools too. By the way, what do you do when someone sends you a .doc or even a .docx file?

NSW Information Commissioner sends email to wrong list

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Re: Eh?

The vacuum attachment sounds like it would make a great GUI which would be most satisfying to watch (and to some fools, convincing). However I do think that Captain Tick Tock got it right. They will probably ask for the e-mails back so they can delete them. After all, you don't get to be The Information Commissioner without having the skills to solve these kinds of problems.

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Eh?

Immediate action is being taken to have the data retrieved and destroyed.

How does that work exactly?

Patent trolling to go under anti-trust spotlight

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What do you call it when

Someone, or a corporation, makes a negative economic contribution? Theft? Extortion? Sabotage? Hopefully this process will come up with better vocabulary and a clearer definition that applies to those who profit by doing economic damage.

Vietnamese Google-killer searches like it's 1996

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Cool

I always liked Gopher.

Wordpress to accept Bitcoin without confirmations

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Non political money

This is a situation where monetary sovereignty and government control of currency is a bad thing, and where an alternative can play a useful role. Perhaps in the future we'll see more situations like this where Bitcoin can help democracy or aid other generally desirable goals.

Obama signs off on secret national cybersecurity plan

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random demark

So "your" network is just a network, and anything outside of that is "cyber". I wonder how that new rhetoric is going to develop.

'the most serious challenge to our national security since the onset of the nuclear age sixty years ago'

I guess the war is on, and less important things like the economy can safely be ignored then.

Race for new top level domains now officially a lottery

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dot null

Companies applying for this are suckers who are afraid of missing out on something. Almost nobody types in a whole address.

iFixit CEO launches open Toshiba service guide scheme

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Lawyers make terrible salesmen

Toshiba is missing out on the true value of these service manuals. Having them available encourages respect for the brand and promotes brand allegiance. These manuals should just be considered a public service, similar to a price or parts list. For one thing they need to have them for their own service people, and for another, it doesn't cost anything to have them available in digital format. I don't think there is much money to be made in selling them or value in protecting the copyright. The real value lies in keeping customers happy. Lawyers make money through taking an adversarial position, whereas salesmen make money by making friends.

Steelie Neelie admits laptop hack during IGF

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Re: Coo - A really hard choice

I'd go with Neelie, but the statement (as reported) from her colleagues is a bit vague.

Heath told AP they received a warning message from Apple that the computers had been accessed by a third party.

Does the Apple company send out messages to people, or is this warning from the computer? I'm guessing the operating system, but that has a different name. Can someone tell me what Heath is talking about?

Tech support blog removes Toshiba manuals after legal letter

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Thank you Toshiba!

“We are concerned that by providing the manuals to unqualified person [sic] you may be endangering their well-being”.

You have literally saved my life. Until now, I didn't realize that I was taking such a big chance when fixing computers. Perhaps I owe my good luck so far to not having worked with a Toshiba. Had I done that I probably wouldn't be here, and instead this story would have featured a picture of my charred remains as a warning to others.

Malaysia protests rare earth processing plant

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Now I'm left with the feeling that technology has surpassed the level of education of the locals to the point that they are protesting "black magic".

Sounds like the internet.

US whacks sanctions on Iranians for web, TV censorship

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Blocking Facebook is evil

. . . hit with sanctions for monitoring web traffic and blocking access to Facebook . . .

If people can't access Facebook, how is the US going to get access to their personal information?

Bitcoin Friday sale event kicks off with deep discounts

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Agents don't represent the currency

Hmm..I've seen many reports on Bitcoin theft and no reports of security upgrades since

Perhaps because they went out of business? Who knows - or cares. You wouldn't stop trusting US dollars because your local bank gets held up would you? There are good reasons to not trust any currency, but an unreliable agent isn't one of them. This is especially relevant to Bitcoin because it is has no central authority.

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Security for who?

Canada has been issuing plastic $50 and $100 bills for a while now,

I don't doubt these are hard to counterfeit, but they lack physical security. People who handle piles of them, say they make mistakes because bills now stick together. I've also noticed that they tend to physically disintegrate. I haven't lost one yet, but I am certainly expecting to lose some in the future because of their lack of physical integrity. They are very delicate.

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We don't own our money

The use of conventional currencies to micromanage things which have no direct connection to the role of money is derailing economies and preventing money from serving it's primary purpose. National currencies are subject to controls and confiscation. It is time for people, even corporations, to take back their money.

The whole idea of money control by governments, operating as proxies for private banks, is failing. We need to get away from the current fiat money and adopt something more efficient and competitive. Governments and Banks cannot do this because they have a conflict of interest. The design of Bitcoin is such that this is possible.

Will Bitcoin really do this? Perhaps it is not the best, but so far it is the only one which has managed to make the separation of money and state, and indeed be completely decentralized. I'm not going to make the wildly optimistic bets that others have ventured, but I am still hoping that this game-changing concept will catch on.

China blocks all Google services as new leader anointed

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Re: And does the US impose sanctions?

You're right, it doesn't make sense. Now balloons, that's another story . . .

Apple seeks cooling fan patent for iPhone, iPad

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Re: Think competitors

And if a competitor uses a fan that leaks any air in or out of the headphone jack ... bingo! Court time.

Apple removes apology-hiding JavaScript from UK website

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They don't have style

And they don't have any class either.

Apple is granted a patent on the rectangle. No, really

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felines fit as a fiddle

Catgut doesn't exactly conjure up an image of feline fitness.

Scientist plans to catch Bigfoot with remote-control blimp

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Re: Bigfoot graveyard

Where are all the dead Bigfoot remains ...

And where is the scat? These sorts of things don't disappear over night, and in fact leave a trail of successive generations of organisms that lead back to the source. The lack of these fundamental signs is why scientists don't normally pursue these kinds of stories.

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I have no doubt

Using modern high tech cameras to add legitimacy, they will be showing us pictures of moving shadows in the woods that look like they were taken with a Brownie mounted on a jackhammer. True to genre.

EU and China in yet another tech trade spat

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What does artificial mean?

The process of dumping sees illegal state subsidies offered to manufacturers, allowing prices to stay artificially low.

Governments provide incentives and infrastructure for manufacturers to operate. This is good if it's in your country and bad if it's in another - in which case it is deemed to be artificial. Did I get that right?

KDE 'annoys the hell of' Linus Torvalds

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Re: Every user interface gets this way!

Because of featurism. It's a great excuse for a developer to not work on what needs to be done or finish what he was doing before.

Apple's poisonous Touch silently kills the GNOMEs of Linux Forest

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Re: desktop environment?

You are not the typical computer user, then.

The typical computer user just gets on with whatever is already in front of them. I personally tend to use Fluxbox on various *nix systems. What's interesting is that whenever a Windows user encounters my machine, all I have to say is "right click for a menu" and they're off and running. Despite being a confirmed *nix user, I honestly don't think that Windows users are stupid.

A history of personal computing in 20 objects part 2

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Re: That old IBM keyboard...

It could be worse.

What do you mean worse? Lots of us won't compromise - regardless of the noise. The model M is still made by Unicomp and the old ones are much used. I'm typing on a 1984 model M right now. I actually have a number of them stashed away in case this one wears out - but it's still as good as new. I thought I was prudent, but I'm probably just a hoarder.

I suppose the teletype could be worse, never tried one, but the manual typewriters we all learnt on were definitely unmanageable by modern standards. After all these years I recently thought I'd give my 1940's Underwood a try and was seriously considering using my elbows. I'm glad Underwood didn't make a mouse - you'd probably need an assistant.

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Re: Wot no C64?

I'm not into those, so just the other day gave away a power supply for one of those. There were lots of Vic-20s made and despite being very collectible, they're still not too expensive. The 5150s are starting to really go up in price though. I've seen them hit several grand, though mostly just a few hundred. Anyway, hang on to your old stuff. You'll be glad you did.